EDIT: Added soft- to the title, since it was pissing people off. Maybe I'm still wrong. Idk, it's just a meme.
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How? LOS is installed via sideload. It's hard to mess it up.
Really depends on your phone, different models present different levels of difficulties from very easy to literally impossible.
Makes sense but I always thought that LOS install guides were so detailed you couldn't miss anything
Haha you expect people to read? I just copy and paste the commands in terminal and yolo it.
/s of course lol
Can confirm.
I work with developers who refuse to read the documentation that I spent hours, creating and refuse to read the code which has easily been made available (at their own demand) - and then come to me asking for explanations that are already written.
There are loads of people out there that want stuff like this but dont have computer-related hobbies.
It makes perfect sense if you understand what you're doing at each step, but if you've never used a command line before, each instruction would look like arcane gibberish.
I remember a time when MicroG didn't exist, we has to walk barefoot 50 miles uphill both ways in a snowstorm just to get the privilege of bicking my device twice a day
I'm still not wise enough to comprehend the life of custom ROM users back then. Reading manuals of that era always causes my brain to error out before even finishing the initial reading.